Word: butchering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked my way along the street toward Rudenstine's office at the Mellon Foundation. No luck at the butcher. Likewise at the baker. There didn't appear to be a candlestick maker in the neighborhood, but, with my luck, that wouldn't have mattered. No one seemed to recognize Rudenstine's picture. A cashier at the greengrocer on the corner of Lex and 52nd said she had seen Rudenstine's wife buy groceries once. But she couldn't remember when or what...
When Saddam was casting about for someone to put down the worst rebellion he has ever faced, he needed to look no farther than his own family. Cousin Majid ordered a poison-gas attack on restive Kurds in 1988, killing 5,000 and earning him the nickname "the butcher of Kurdistan." Last September, Majid, who like Saddam has a limited education and little sophistication about the outside world, was made governor of occupied Kuwait so that he would suppress the resistance. He was responsible for the summary execution of its members and the abduction of an estimated 2,000 Kuwaitis...
...Arab psyche's mixture of bravado, rhetoric and religious conviction. Arabs denied Israel's existence for decades and believed that Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser had a trick up his sleeve when his air force was destroyed in the first hours of the 1967 war. Fouad Subhi, a butcher at the Baqa'a refugee camp near Amman, still puts his faith in Saddam: "After he rebuilds Iraq, he will try to liberate Palestine again...
...also invaded another state (Panama), waged war against another country (Nicaragua), and totes an equally menacing chemical weapon (nuclear warheads). The point is that if you are on the receiving end of any one of these demonic policies, it makes very little difference whether the imperial "Satan" or the "Butcher of Baghdad" is at "command and control...
...fall into Hussein's or Bush's bloody hands once we condemn one set of crimes and overlook another. By choosing between the crimes of "Satan" and the "Butcher," we compromise the meaning of law and justice. In order to avoid this trap, we need to create an authentic "world legal order" that expands the concept of the "national interest" to the "global interest" which consistently applies the principles of international law to all countries--big or small...